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  • ...Newport-cowes.jpg|right|thumb|280px|An aerial photograph, showing Newport (bottom left).]] ...ssibly the largest private collection of vintage postal equipment and post boxes in the world.<ref>[http://www.postalmuseum.co.uk/ Postal Museum official we
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  • ...turing of carronades for the Royal Navy and also later many British pillar boxes. ...s a unique rotary boat lift between a basin off the Forth and Clyde at the bottom and a spur of the Union on an aqueduct high above. Opposite each other on t
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  • ...rst planted in 1996. Many of the trees are labelled, and there are several boxes that provide audio commentary on the biology and historical interest of sel ...a pay and display car park accessible from Breakback Road, which is at the bottom of the hill. There is also a car park at the top of the hill on Beacon Road
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  • ...ed in the area's fortification with anti-tank defences as well as two pill boxes, positioned on either side of the causeway. An observation post was also es ...he vehicle drives across the beach with its wheels underwater on the sandy bottom while its driver and passengers sit on a platform high above. Power from a
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  • ...e centre supporting a revolving ladder so people had access to the nesting boxes. The central pillar remains, but the ladder is now gone.<ref name="ref_1b" ...om of the cliff. There is a gradual change of shale to limestone; near the bottom there is a lot more shale per foot of rock and nearer the top there is a lo
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  • ...over 2 miles away. The road to the north runs to the small hamlet of Hole Bottom, from there continuing as a track onto Grassington Moor. ...w Triggs Hodge, who grew up in the village.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gold Post Boxes|url=http://www.goldpostboxes.com/|publisher=Royal Mail Group|accessdate=2 M
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  • ...lage of [[Pyle]], where the relocation is evident by smaller stones at the bottom of the church, with larger ones above. All that remains now of Kenfig Cast ...e book| authorlink = Ray Hutton (Ed)|title = News: Two million Borg-Warner boxes| series = 144|magazine=Autocar | volume = (nbr 4133)|page=43|date = 24 Jan
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  • ...educt carried the canal over Nant Pennar, and a stop lock was built at the bottom end, where the canal joined the Glamorganshire Canal just below lock 17. Th ...a way to reduce breakage and ease handling of the product, with the empty boxes not incurring tolls on the return journey.{{sfn |Rowson |Wright |2001 |pp=1
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  • ...on-street using 35G-section grooved tram rail, with BS11-80A 80 lb/yd flat-bottom rail elsewhere.<ref name=technical /> The railway track was supplied by Bri ...High level access is provided on lines 9 and 10 for servicing of equipment boxes and pantographs. An automated washing machine is located on line 7.
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  • ...h box had a base of two halves, hinged and held closed with chains. These boxes would be lifted out of the boats, positioned by crane over a bunker or cart ...Bleach Works by Thomas Smith & Sons of Rodley and was used to unload coal boxes from barges into the yard below the canal.<ref name=Hindle4/> It was Grade
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  • The hall originally seated 2,901. The cantilevered boxes are often described as looking like drawers pulled out in a hurried burglar ...to support and sustain that sound. The tapestries on the back walls of the boxes were gathered up to increase reverberation, but can be redeployed, together
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  • ...feet deep and 12 feet in diameter, the water standing 18 feet deep at the bottom. The works were electrified in 1930 and the steam plant removed. Two pill boxes were constructed on the South Side on Cleadon Hills to allow placement of m
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  • ...s introduced in 1876 between the bottom of what is now Summer Hill and the bottom of Broadway in the centre of today's promenade adjacent to the Villa Marina ...ship. This was the last of three cars from 1935 which were dubbed "tomato boxes" owing to their unconventional appearance. On 27 August 2016, after Douglas
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  • ...Cuthbertson, Page 100</ref> The site would have been ideal, sitting at the bottom of the glen with its rivulet and water also entering via the tunnel that ru ...en and lint mills, also a curling stone mill and in one of the mills snuff boxes were manufactured. The corn and saw mill buildings still stand on the cours
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  • ...who succeeded in 1553, and comprises four broad L-shaped terraces. At the bottom of the terraces was an orchard, laid out in 1690, and recently replanted.<r ...t, or pigeon house, is located to the south, containing around 600 nesting boxes. It stands 30 feet high, rising in four steps, divided by "rat courses"; pr
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